Nick Hackworth

According to Wikipedia - "Hedonism is a school of thought which argues that pleasure is the only intrinsic good. This is often used as a justification for evaluating actions in terms of how much pleasure and how little pain (i.e. suffering) they produce. In very simple terms, a hedonist strives to maximize this net pleasure (pleasure minus pain)."

So this is not a budget travel guide, this the guide that the girls from Sex in the City would use if they were planning a trip. The book says "Our aim is to give you the inside knowledge of the city, to make you feel like a well-heeled, sophisticated local and to take you to the most fashionable places in town to rub shoulders with the local glitterati."

It is not exhaustive in it's listings either, for example there are only 20 hotels listed, for a city the size of Istanbul that isn't even the tip of the preverbial icebrug. But it does tell you that if you are traveling with body guards that the hotel Marmara Istanbul in Taksim has rooms `where there are specially dedicated side rooms for traveling armed muscle." I love the style of writing, for example it says that the Büyük Londra Hotel is "a serious option for those with a restricted budget and/or a developed sense of humour . . ." One wonders what they would say about places that aren't fashionable.

If you are traveling to a city like Istanbul do you want to eat at McDonalds and stay at the Holiday Inn? I know I don't, I want to go to places that make the city unique, I want to leave my everyday life behind. I don't want to shop at Wal-mart I want to go to the places where I wouldn't normally go, I want to eat at the places that special, or like the places at home that I would only go to for a special occasion and this book tells you where they are.
DS
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